Tourney Need Help with cash/tourney set (1 Viewer)

[Heavyball]

So i've decided to focus on finishing my 1,500 chip PCA cash/tourney set, and could use some help.

Cash games are .25/.50 or .50/1. Ive had as many as 25 people, and the goal is to accomodate as many as possible.

Typically, we play a 3-4 hour tourney, then cash starts up as people bust out. What do you think would be a good breakdown? Here's what i have so far:

$1 x 600
$5 x 400
$25 x 300
$100 x 200

Obviously i need quarters, and am open to recommendations. Would prefer a design similar to the PCA $1 if possible. Will also need $500s and plaques...

Thanks!

 

[TroyMan]

I'm no expert here, and fairly new to this forum, but something to consider is whether you have any concern about cross-contamination of chips (i.e.some of your $1s or $5s making their way to the cash game). I play with people I know/trust so not a big deal for me. If it is a concern, you'll need more chips, or a different set. If your only using quarters and $1 chips for the cash game, you would start your tournaments with $5s and structure a T1000 tournament using $5s and up. In this case, you would not need as many $! chips, since they would only be used for the cash game. But you'll need more $5s and up.

Alternatively, you can buy a smaller second set for the cash game. This might be your best bet, depending on how many people are going to be playing a cash game at any given point in time. You need quarters, anyhow, so you can just buy a second set that has quarters, and $1s, and a few barrels of $5s.

Again, this is all contingent on wanting to not risk cross-contamination. But the other upside to this approach is that it justifies having a second, smaller set of chips to show off.

 

[nitzilla]

^^^^ This all day...

 

[upNdown]

I read a lot of advice about cross contamination of cash/tourney chips. Some people put it in absolutes - NEVER USE THE SAME CHIPS FOR BOTH. I think the above advice is sound - decide if it's a concern for YOU. It's not a concern for me, because my games are all single table affairs with friends - no trust issues at all. But yeah, if you're hosting a lot with people you don't really know, then it's a concern. But if that's a real concern, then customs for cash games are really the only way to go, because none of the chips bought and sold here are particularly secure.

 

[BGinGA]

It's not a concern for me, because my games are all single table affairs with friends - no trust issues at all.

Yep, until the first time the bank comes up short. And it WILL eventually happen. May even be due to some innocent actions (nothing nefarious), like a dropped low-denom tourney chip that is later picked up by a cash player who thinks it's from his stack, and suddenly the cash bank is $25 short and nobody knows why. It's just a bad practice in general.